Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
based on 16 ratings
| 5,703 views
COMPASSION'S REWARD
Born over sixty years ago in Yugoslavia, she responded to God’s call on her life while still a teenager. A missionary’s strong challenge to give her life to teaching in India resulted in her appointment to the city of Calcutta.
Some months later she saw a sight which
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2002
based on 76 ratings
| 10,793 views
NO GREATER LOVE
It was February 1941, Auschwitz, Poland. Maximilian Kolbe
was a Franciscan priest put in the infamous death camp for helping Jews escape Nazi terrorism.
Months went by and in desperation an escape took place. The camp rule was enforced. Ten people would be rounded up
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Randy Croft on Feb 28, 2002
based on 56 ratings
| 4,365 views
Investing in Your Passion
No one knows this better than Richard Westerfield. At age 22, having studied piano, violin, and voice, he got his first chance to conduct and orchestra. "The moment I picked up the baton, I knew this was what I wanted to do." His parents however, urged him to be more
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
based on 33 ratings
| 4,592 views
THE CASE OF CHRIST
[Richard] Bandler tells one story about visiting a mental institution and dealing with a man who insisted he was Jesus Christ - not metaphorically, not in spirit, but in the flesh. One day Bandler walked in to meet this man. "Are you Jesus?" he said. "Yes, my son," the man
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 22, 2001
based on 47 ratings
| 6,161 views
DESPAIR
During the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century, German pastor Paul Gerhardt and his family were forced to flee from their home. One night as they stayed in a small village inn, homeless and afraid, his wife broke down and cried openly in despair. To comfort her, Gerhardt reminded her of
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dana Chau on Apr 22, 2002
based on 22 ratings
| 6,375 views
BY LIFE OR BY DEATH
John Piper, in his book, Future Grace, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer called mycosis fungoides, which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 24, 2002
based on 15 ratings
| 5,393 views
HE’S FORGOTTEN- COMMUNION MEDITATION
She was crazy. Everyone knew it because she had the habit of talking to herself in public and it was known that she believed she even talked to Jesus - and Jesus talked back to her. A new preacher came to town and, hearing of the crazy woman, thought that he
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 24, 2002
based on 40 ratings
| 2,222 views
[Prodigal Brings Christ Home, Citation: J. Granger, Sons: A Father’s Love (Word, 1999), quoted in Men of Integrity, Vol. 3, no. 2]
My son called.
Through years of drug abuse, Scott had stolen from our family, manipulated us, and failed us.
It had been a relief not to hear from him for two
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 26, 2002
based on 15 ratings
| 2,905 views
When I consider the power of these little narratives, I’m reminded, on this Memorial Day weekend, of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a speech he gave in 1863 to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetery for the Civil War dead. It begins: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
based on 21 ratings
| 3,247 views
The Month After Christmas
Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d tasted
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 31, 2002
based on 3 ratings
| 1,997 views
Just out in this past Thursday’s USATODAY website (May 30,2002) – “Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war against terrorism following weeks of revelations about missed clues and warnings of likely future attacks. Only four in 10 Americans believe the United States and its allies are
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical Free
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 6, 2002
based on 9 ratings
| 1,962 views
One of the classic episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show concerns a problem that Ritchie is having with a girl named Priscilla. For a period of time he comes home every afternoon after school battered and bruised by this girl.
Rob and Laura are at a loss to know what to do and so Laura goes and
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 11, 2002
based on 44 ratings
| 1,088 views
A Modern Fable
Once upon a time there was a little boy. When he was three weeks old his parents turned him over to a baby-sitter.
When he was two, they dressed him up like a cowboy and gave him a toy gun.
When he was three, everybody said, “How cute as he went about singing a beer
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Apr 24, 2007
In early 1874 an inventor named Elisha Gray transmitted a few musical notes over a telegraph wire. He thought to himself, "If I can send music, perhaps I could send the human voice." The NEW YORK TIMES reported predictions of a "talking telegraph", and the public began to grow eager for
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
TV Guide recently came up with a list of what they consider the top 50 TV shows of all time; the top 5 were (source: http://www.tvguide.com/50th/features/020429a.asp):
5. The Sopranos – “A complex drama built around a thinking man’s mobster who struggles with two families — his wife and kids, and
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jun 3, 2007
John Sculley was president of Pepsi Co during the 1970s and early 1980s
He is best known for his marketing skills, particularly in his introduction of ’the Pepsi Challenge’ at Pepsi Co,
He became CEO of Apple from 1983-1993.
What caused Pepsi Cola president John Sculley’s dramatic shift to become
...read more
Denomination:
Baptist